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Margot Asquith
1864–1945
A sharp-tongued memoirist at the heart of British public life, she turned society gossip, political observation, and personal candor into lively books that still feel unusually direct.
2 Audiobooks
My Impressions of America
by Margot Asquith
Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One
by Margot Asquith
About the author
Born Emma Alice Margaret Tennant in Scotland in 1864, she became famous in late Victorian and Edwardian society for her wit, independence, and vivid personality. She was part of the aristocratic circle known as "The Souls" and, after marrying H. H. Asquith in 1894, lived close to the center of British political life as his career rose to the premiership.
Alongside that public role, she built a reputation as an author. Her best-known work, Margot Asquith: An Autobiography, is remembered for its frank, spirited account of her life, family, and the world around her. Readers often come to her books not only for the historical setting, but for the sense of a very distinct voice speaking straight from the page.
She died in London in 1945. Today, she is remembered as both a society figure and a writer whose memoirs preserve an unusually personal view of power, culture, and conversation in her era.